Rubber valve handling apparatus



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RUBBER VALVE HANDLING APPARATUS Original Filed March 4. 1938 4 Sheets-Sheet .2

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Driginal Filed March 4. 1938 '4 Sheets-Sheet 4 5 f E a y II /7 //AAa W 0 5 z 6 v .m, 7 r a w m m wa w M Pa 5 7 5 5 Z 6 n 6 a -wadhihv Jwumdow 'ae and Patented June 13, 1944 RUBBER VALVE HANDLING APPARATUS Everett 'D. George, Ridley Park, Pa., and Harold M. Brown, Cuyahoga. Falls, Ohio, assignors to Wingfoot Corporation, Wilmington, Del., a corporation of Delaware Original application March 4, 1938, Serial No.

193,938, now Patent No. 2,269,658., dated January 13, 1942. Divided and this application September 18, 1941, Serial No. 411,338

7 Claims. (01. 192F209) The present invention relates to a machine for cleaning and bumng tire valves and the like preparatory to applying .same to inner tubes and the like. Usually after the valves have been formed the bases thereof have a glazed surface which is not suitable for proper adhesion of the valve to an inner tube and it is customary to buff these bases .in order to create a surface which will be of the character such as to provide proper adhesion of the valve to the inner tube. Also the valves after they have been molded may contain and usually do contain some rubber in the hollow metal stem thereof, due to the flow of rubber during the curing process. Also some of the rubber penetrates in and around the threads of the valve and this rubber, together with the rubber within the metal portion, must be removed. It has been generallycustomary to do this by manual labor and the present invention has for its object the provision of an improved method and means for preparing the valve for application to a tube.

An important object of this invention is to provide means whereby the valves can be quickly placed in position for bufiing, cleaning and drilling without danger to the operator.

Another object of this invention is to provide means whereby valves are fed to the machine by a feeding disc or the like and removed from said conveyor device onto a carrier which conveys the valves to and past designated buffing, cleaning and drilling stations, as will be more fully described hereinafter.

Another object of this invention is to provide means for removing the valves from the carrier after they have been buffed and cleaned.

A still further object of this invention is to provide means whereby the valves are automatically removed from the carrier after they have been moved along a given path by the carrier to a designated point.

Still other objects of this invention will appear hereinafter as the description thereof proceeds, the novel features, arrangements and combinations being clearly set forth in the specification and the claims thereunto appended.

This application is a division of our parent application, Serial No. 193,938, filed March 4, 1938, issued as Patent No. 2,269,658, January 13, 1942 and entitled .Valve buffing and polishing machine.

In the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a machine embodying the invention;

Fig. 2 is a side elevation partly in section of a portion of the machine looking from the left in Fi 1;

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary side elevation showing .a portion of the driving mechanism which is arranged at the left of the machine as viewed in Fig. 2;

Fig. 4 is a top plan view of the machine illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2 with parts removed for the sake of clearness;

Fig. .5 is a fragmentary perspective view illustrating some of the steps in the process of bufiing and cleaning the valve;

Fig. 6 is a detailed vertical section through the device for ejecting the valves from the feeding disc into the carrier;

Fig. '7 is a vertical cross-section through one of the valve holders on the carrier and the means for driving same;

Fig. 8 is a plan view of thevalve holder illustrated inFig. 7;

Fig. 9 is a vertical cross-section through the air-blast cleaning device;

Fig. 10 is an elevational View of the two airblast cleaning devices used; and

Fig. 11 shows a detail of the drill-actuating means.

The machine comprises a frame [0 on which the various elements thereof are mounted. A vertical hollow shaft I extends from the base of the machine upwardly. to a point near the top thereof and thissupports a valve carrier [2 which is intermittently indexed by any suitable means. In the present instance this indexing is accomplished by the means of a Geneva wheel l3 fixed to the shaft H and .an actuating pin I4 (see Figs. 2. and 4, particularly) mounted on the end of an arm 15 carried by a rotating shaft I6 which is driven at a uniform speed in the manner hereinafter set forth. The Geneva movement indexes the carrier to six different positions, whereby to bring the valves to six different operating stations spaced equally about the axis of the shaft l I and at each of the stations a given operation is performed on the Valves, and the valves then moved to the nextstation.

'I'hese stations which are more clearly illustrated in Fig. 5 and the operations occurring at those stations are as follows:

38, pulley 39, spur gears 43 and 4|, shaft 42, bevel gears 43 and 44, shaft 45, sprocket 46, chain 41, sprocket 48, shaft l6 and gears I 'l and I8 (see Fig. 2').

As the carrier I2 is indexed from station to station, the various aforesaid operations are performed on the valve to clean up the valve and place it in condition for application to a tube. A typical valve is shown in Fig. 7 and comprises a flanged rubber base portion 49 with a contiguous rubber stem portion 50 embracing the metal stem 5|. A cap is placed on the threaded end of this stem in a well-known manner and, since ECamming device moves valves vertically and ejector removes valves from machine. r Mounted on the front side of the machine is a bracket having a bearin 2| supporting the rotating shaft 22, the upper side of which, as

illustrated in Fig. 4, carries'a feeding disc 23' having a series of valve-supporting seats 24 on which the valves are placed with their stems extending downwardly through openings '2 The openings 25 which are surrounded by the seats.

24 are made sufiiciently large .so that the valve stem fits freely therein with only the very outer edges of the valve supported by the valve seats 24. This makes. it easy to push the valve through the openings 25 when it is desir'edto' eject the valves into the carrier, since the valves are constructed with thin peripheral edges which 'yield inwardly when pressure is applied at the centers of 'thevalv'es'to force them through the openings 25. Y The carrier is provided with rotating valve supports 26' best illustrated. in Fig. 7.. It is constructed with an upper plate 2! a lower plate 2 8, both of which are rigidly connected together at their peripheries in spaced relation to each other. 'The bearings 29 and 28, of which there are twelve each, are seated in the lowerplate 2B and upper plateffl, respectively, and each of these carries a rotating member 30' which is formed with gear teeth 31 on itsperiphery. The valve stem. is seated within a bushing 32 having an interior tapered opening of substantially the same taper as the valve stem, an'd'the base of the valve extends over and rests on a seat in the disc 33secured by screws ,34.to the member 30. By changing the size and shape of the seats in the bushing 32 and/ or annular member 33, valves of different sizes and shapes can be accommodated in the valve supports and can be buffed and cleaned While seated therein without change of any more of theaforesaid parts, and perhaps an adjustment of the amount of'travel of the bufiing devices'or their position with respect to the valve during-its movement by the carrier.

Notches 55 are formed in the stem-receiving portionof the bushing 32 to avoid any air pressure building up around the stem sufficient to prevent the valve from being properly seated. These notches also form gripping edges to prevent the valve from turning when the valve is forced into the holder. A pin 55' operating in a bayonet slot 55 holds the sleeve 32 in fixed position with" respect to'sleeve 30, but permits ready separation therefrom.

The sleeves 3B are driven by means of a gear 35 which is mounted rigidly on a shaft 36 which extends through the hollow shaft II which carries the Geneva gear l3.

The constant speed of shaft 36 is derived from the main power drive (see. Fig; 4), Which is the motor 31; through the intermediary of the belt in the molding operation some rubber is apt to flow into the threads, such rubber must be removed therefrom in order that the cap may be threaded onto the stem. Also, some rubber gets into the bore 52 of the stem and this must be drilled out and, after the drilling, air under pressureis forced through the stem to clean out the rubber particles therein. The fiat surface 53 on the base which is to be applied to the inner tube is somewhat glazed when it comes from the mold and it is necessary to condition this surface in order that the valve may be properly applied to the tube. In order to prepare this surface, it is buffed by a suitable wire brush "or thelike.v

The first operation takes place at station A wherethe valves are removed from the feeding disc 23 into the carrier I 2. This operation is best illustrated in Figs. 1, 2 and 6. As a pair of valves are brought into alined position over a pair of the valve supports 26 they areforced out of the openings inthe feeding disc 23 into the valve supports 26 by a pair of plungers indicated generally at 54. The generalpurp'ose of these plungers is to engage the bases of the valve and push the valves through the restricted -openings25 of the feeding disc 23 and to press the valves firmly into their seat in the carrier l 2 so that they occupy positions such as shown in enlarged head 59 which holds the cup-shaped.

sleeve 60 over the lower end of the sleeve 5! and retains the anti-friction bearing 6| in position between the sleeves 51 and Gil. A third sleeve 62 embraces the sleeves 60 and, a spring 63 normally holds the sleeve 62 projected downwardly as illus trated in Fig. 6, but permits the same to be moved upwardly whenpres'sure is exerted on the lower end thereof. Stops 64 on the sleeve 62 prevent separation of the sleeves 6!! and 62} The pin 58 has a reduced extension 65 projecting from the'lower end thereof and as the plunger descends the conical end on the extension 65 enters the hole at the center of the stem and the sleeve 62 engages the base to prevent the tipping of the valve. Further downward movement of .the shaft 56 causesthe spring 63 to be compressed and the pin 65 to enter the stem' opening to a greater extent. This holds the valve against lateral shifting. The result is that as the valve is forced from the feeding disc23 into the. opening. in the the valve into the operative position shown in Fig.

-7 so that all of the parts of the valve are proper position to-be operated upon.

:In order to secure the aforesaid movement of "the plungers 54, the shafts 56 which carry the plungers are slidably -mounted for vertical movement in the bracket 66 and are spring-pressed in-a downward direction by means of spring 51 abutting against the bracket '68 which embraces and is secured to both of the shafts 56, as is most clearly illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2. To-this bracket 68 is pivoted a link 69 which, in turn, is pivotally connected to the arm I pivoted at "H itothebr acket I2 secured rigidly to-thecross- -member I3 of the frame I0 or made integral therewith. This bracket also forms an upper bearing for therotating shaft 36.

Acam I4 has -an inner ca-m track I5 and an :outer cam .track "16. This cam is keyed as at =11 .to the continuously rotating shaft 36 and partakes of the movement thereof. A roller 18 mounted on the under side of the arm engages the cam track I5 and is raised and lowered once .each time the cam makes a complete revolution. The cam rotates one complete revolution foreach complete indexing movement so :that each time I9 or its equivalent trained over sprocket .80 on the upper end of the hollow sleeve I I, which is indexed by means of the Geneva movement I4-I3 and the sprocket .8I secured rigidly to the shaft 22 on which the carrier 23 is rigidly secured. This insures simultaneous indexing of the feedingdisc 23 and the carrier I27.

At the next station, station B ,(seeFigs. 1,5 and 1 1) the valves are drilled, that is any rubber within the bores of the stems is drilled out of the same by means of the bits 83 mounted in chucks 84 secured to the ends of the spindles 85, which are mounted for rotation. There are two similar spindles as indicated in Figs. 1 and. 5 and each is similarly mounted in parallel sleeves 85 for vertical reciprocating :lnovement.

Splined to the top of each spindle 85 is a gear 81 and these gears mesh with a driving gear 88 which has a projecting flange 8-9 to prevent the gears 81 from being raised vertically, the downward movement of the gears 8'! being prevented by the bosses 90 on the bracket which supports the spindles. The gears, as has heretofore been stated, are splined to the spindles 85 so that the spindles may move vertically in the gears while the driving relation between th gears and the spindle is maintained.

The driving gear 98 is secured to a shaft 9| which also has a pulley 92 secured thereto and which is driven by means of a belt 93 running over idle pulleys 93 and trained over a pulley 94 on the shaft 95, which shaft in turn is driven from a motor 95 by means of a belt 91 trained over the pulleys 98 and 99 on the motor 95 and shaft 42 respectively. Thus, it will be seen that the drills B3 are driven at a continuous rate by means of the motor 9.5 and are capable of vertical reciprocating motion.

The vertical reciprocating motion of the drills is accomplished through the following mechasxn A bracket I00 secured t the n m otatable but vertically reciprocable sleeves 06, which em- (ill 'brace the rotating spindles -85, is adapted to reciprocate with the spindles 85 and this bracket is pivotally connected, as by a link IN, to the end of an arm I02, which in turn is pivoted to the frame of the machine at I04 (see Fig, 11) and is reciprocated by means of a roller I03 on the arm I02 which rides on the outer cam track I6. Springs 182 normally urge the spindles downwardly and hold the roller I03 on the cam track I6. As the cam I4 rotates, the spindles are given a vertical reciprocating motion of such a nature as to bring the-drills 83 downwardly into the stems of the valves after they arrive in position beneath the drills and to thereafter withdraw the drills into position shown in Fig. 1. Since the drills arerelatively small in'cross-section, a bracket I05 secured to the frame is provided with openings I06 to strip the valves from the drills if they should be retracted therewith after being drilled, and also sweep any valves off the carrier which may happen-to lie on the surface thereof. These drills remove the rubber from the metal valve stems.

Any particles of rubber remaining in the stems must be cleaned out and for this purpose the valves are indexed into the next position at C where an air blast is employed to clean out the valve stems, at which station the outer cap-receiving threaded end of the stem is buffed to remove any rubber which may have flowed over the foreign matter therefrom after the stems have been drilled. One of these devices is best illustrated in Fig. 9 and a description of the one will suffice for'both. The devices I0! are connected to a common supply pipe I 08 (see Fig. 10) and these devices comprise pipes I09, which, at their lower ends, have sleeves H0 threaded therein, the sleeves being reduced at their lower ends and having an inner tapered seat III, against which a similarly tapered seat H2 on a valve H3 is adapted to seat when. in its lower or dotted-line position shown in Fig. 9. The valve I I3 is normally held upwardly against the end of the pipe I09 by a spring II 4 and when air is introduced into the pipe I09 the valve is forced downwardly and the lower, outer end I I5 thereof seats against the rubber at the base of the valve stem, as is clearly illustrated in Fig. '7. In this position the seats H2 and H0 are in engagement with each other and prevent the escape of air around the valve, the air passing through the narrow passage Il6 in the valve stem at a high velocity to blow the air out of the valve stem. On release of the air pressure, the valve again assumes the position shown by full lines in Fig. 9. Due to the engagement of the lower end H5 with the valve being treated, the valve is kept from jumping off its seat.

In order to introduce air into the pipes I09. there is a valv II! (see Fig. l) which is used to control the flow of fluid through the conduit I08. In Fig. l the air is supplied from any suitable source through a conduit II-8 leading into the conduit 108 and there are fingers I I9 on the bracket I00 which are adapted to engage the lower end of the sliding sleeve I20 forming a part of the valve IIl. A spring I2I normally holds the sleeve in its lowermost position but when the bracket I00 is moved upwardly the spring is compressed and thesleeve I20 is moved to the position in which it cuts off the supply of air to the conduit I08. When the bracket I50 descends with the spindles 84, the sleeve I20 is forced downwardly by the spring l2| and air flows through the conduit I08 to the pipes I09. Any appropriate kind of valve can be used for that illustrated at I I1, whereby the flow of fluid is controlled through the conduit I08.

While the air is being blown through the valve stem, the valve stem is also being buffed-at its lower, externally threaded end by means. of a buffer, such as a wire brush I22, which rotates with its periphery against the threads on the stem to clean any rubber or foreign material therefrom. These brushes most clearly illustrated in Fig. 2 are carried on spindles I23, to the lower ends of which are attached the pulleys I24 actuated in the following manner. A rotatable shaft I25 arranged parallel -to the driving shaft is connected thereto by a belt I26 trained over the pulleys I21 and I28 on the shafts SI and I respectively. Belts I29 and I30 are trained over the pulleys I3I and I32 on the shafts I25 and 9| respectively and over the pulleys I24 to actuate the spindles I23 and, consequently, the wire brushes I22. These wire brushes may be mounted for sliding movement, as by means of slides I 33 and I36 provided for each ofthe two brushes. This is necessary for the purpose of compensating for wear. Normally these brushes are arranged with their outer peripheries substantially tangential to the outer portions of the valves to be buffed, as is more clearly illustrated in Fig. 4, whereby as the valves rotate into the position C the same are brought wire brushes, such as I 35, mounted to rotate about a horizontal axis and these are driven by belts I36 from the pulleys I31 on the shaft 95, the belts being trained 'over the idle pulleys I38 and I40. The idle pulley I00 is mounted on an arm I II pivoted on the shaft 95 and urged toward the belt by a spring I02 to maintain the belt under sufiicient tension to drive the wire brush. The brushes are mounted on the ends of arms I43 which are rockable on shafts I44, which shafts in turn are mounted on sliding brackets I45, whereby the brushes I may be rocked about the shafts I44 as pivots and also moved tothe right and left (as viewed in Fig. 2) so as to move over the base of the valve to bufi the entire surface thereof. I

. The motion. of the brush in. going over'the surface of the valve is quite important and it has been found that the best results are obtained by first bringing-the brushes down into engagement .with the valve substantially at the center of the base thereof; then moving the brushes outwardly toward the periphery of the base or to the left as viewed in Fig. 2; then upwardly out of contact with the valves and then inwardly or to the right in Fig. 2 to bring the brushes into position above the centers of the next valves to be buffed, the brushes then being lowered into engagement with the brushes and the cycle repeated.

The. motions of the brushes are produced by cams and eccentrics in the following manner.,

In order to give a reciprocating motion to the sliding brackets I45 (from right to left and left to right in Fig. 2) there is connected to the rear end of each of the carriages aflink Iflfiisee Fig. 3)

into engagement with the brushes and are bufied which is pivoted at one end thereto, and has the cam, when operating against the roller stems engage an inclined guide the base. 7

lower end thereof connected by a link I16 to an roller IBIlagainst the cam IIII.

.Otherv end thereof mounted on-an eccentric pin .I5I driven from 'a similar sprocket I52 on the shaft 42 and is driven thereby. Thus, it willbe ,seen that, due tothe eccentricity of the pin 1.41,

the carriage. will be given a reciprocating motion.

: --The brushes are rocked about their pivots I44 to, impart vertical movement thereto bymeans of a cam I55 operating against a roller I55 on an arm I56 pivoted at I51 tothe frame! and this arm in turn is connected to a link I58 by the pivot I59 and the link in turn is pivoted at I50 to an arm I5! rigid with the arm I 43. This I55, causes a vertical reciprocation of the link I58 and a similar but opposite reciprocation to the brush I35. The bufiing wheels orbrushes are normally urgedin a downward direction by springs I62 and the downward movement is limited by means of a rigid arm I63 'rigidly connected to the arms I43 and I61. This stop is adapted to engage the end of a rod IEfi-threaded at I55 into the upper end of the bracket I45. By adjusting the position of the .rod by rotating the hand wheel I55 at the end thereof, the amount of contact which the brushes have with the'work may be I erly buffed the brushes may be adjusted to bring them into proper contactwith the bases-for securing the proper action thereon. The valves .whichare now completely buffed and cleaned are ready to be removed from the machine and this is done at the station F.

At the station E no action takes place as far as the valves are concerned, but as the valves advance from the station E to the station F their I61 located beneath the carrier I2 (see Figs. 1 and 5) and this causes the valve bases to be raised above the upper surface of the carrier I2 so that suitable devices may be inserted beneath the bases to lift them completely out of the valve holders.

The means provided for this purpose comprise a pair of arms I 68 having the upper surfaces offset at I69 and forked to provide the valve-stem receiving openings I10. The arms IE8 are pivoted at I1I (see Fig. l) to the upper end of a generally vertically extending arm I12,

which in turn is pivoted at I 13 to a bracket I14 on This arm has an extension I15 at the arm I11 pivoted at I18 to a shaft I19 and this arm (see particularly Fig. 1) has a roller I thereon engaging a cam I 8! on shaft I6 which is also shown in Fig. 2. This causes a rocking movement of the arm I12 to and fromrthe edge 7 of the carrier I2. A spring I 39 connected to the frame I90 and to the arm I 11 at ISI holds the The arms I58 have pins I82 extending laterally therefrom and connected to springs I83 fastened tobrackts I84 on the base of the machine. Assuming that the parts are in the positions illustrated in Fig. 1, the arm I12 has not completed its full movement'to the right and as that movementcontinues the arms I63, which are in engagement with the rubber abutments I85 mounted on the bracket I85, are caused to rotate in a counterclockwise direction about the pivot I1I and this continues until the springs pass the fcenter of the pivot I1 I, whereupon the springs cause a snap action ofthe arms in a counter-clockwise direction to bring the offset portions thereof into a substantially horizontal position so that as the arm I12 moves to the left or counter -clockwise the ends of the offset portion become arranged beneath the bases of thevalve as illustrated in Figs. 4 and 5. As the arm- I12 continues its movement to the left, or counter-clockwise, as viewed in Fig. 5, the arms I68 engage the edge of the carrier I2 and the springs are then moved to the other side of the pivot I'II, which causes a snap action of the arms to the right or clockwise, with a consequent lifting of the valves from their supports and the throwing of these valves into any suitable receptacle arranged by the machine. In the present instance a funnel-shaped receptacle was arranged in the path of movement of the valves to receive the same and direct them into a suitable receptacle. Instead of having the arms engage the edge of the carrier, a pair of stops similar to I85 may be arranged adjacent the edge of the table for stopping the movement of the arms I68 to the left to cause the aforesaid snap action in a clockwise direction.

Any suitable means may be employed for controlling the action of the various parts and there is indicated suitable control buttons, such as I81 and I88, for starting and stopping the machine. These start the motors which are used in this embodiment to drive the machine.

From the description, it will be seen that the valves are inserted by hand in a feeding disc 23 and are then removed therefrom and inserted in the valve supports 26 by means of the plungers 54. The carrier is then indexed to bring these valves successively into the following positions; the position B where the valves are drilled by the drills 83; the position C where the air is blown through the valve stems and the outer threaded portions of the valves are buffed by the brushes I22; the position D where the bases of the valves are buffed by the brushes I35 and, finally, to the position F where the valves are removed from the valve holders 25 and thrown into a suitable receptacle It will be understood that various means may be used for accomplishing the results herein described and the drawings merely illustrate one embodiment of our invention. Obviously, the various arrangements and combinations can be varied by those skilled in the art to which the invention pertains and therefore we do not wish to be limited in our invention except as may here- :inafter be set forth in the appended claims.

We claim:

'1. A valve-treating machine having a rotary carrier with valve supports including a bore to receive the stem thereof, and a recessed portion aligned with said bore for receiving the base of the valve, means for engaging the stems of the valves for moving the bases thereof out of their recesses, and means movable radially of the car- -rier and into a position between the carrier and the base of the valve for ejecting a valve from rier into a position between the carrier and the bases of the valves for ejecting a valve from the carrier, comprising a rockable arm having proje'ction's thereon ada'ptedto engage the base and'lift it from its seat, and' means for actuating said rockable arm to rock the same quickly about its pivot to lift thevalves' from' their positions on said carrier and forcibly throw the same clear of the carrier.

3. Means for ejecting valves from an intermittently driven valve carrier in which the valves are supported in an inverted position by their base portions resting on the upper side of the carrier, comprising means for lifting the valves upward partially off the carrier to provide a space between the carrier and the bases of the valves, a movable arm carrying spaced projections mounted for movement to and from the valve position to bring the projections into position between the carrier and bases of the valves, and means operative with the carrier at rest to cause the projections to lift the valves upward from the carrier and remove the same therefrom.

4. Means for ejecting valves from a valve carrier in which the valves are supported in an inverted position by their base portions, comprising means for lifting the valves partially off the carrier to provide a space between the carrier and the base of the valves, a movable arm carrying spaced projections mounted for movement to and from the valve position to bring the projections into position between the carrier and bases of the valves and to thereafter cause the projections to lift the valves from the carrier and remove the same therefrom, said movable arm being mounted on a pivot and carried by movable support in a direction to and from the carrier, means for en gaging the arm to move said arm about its pivot as said support is moved, and yielding means for quickly swinging said arm about its pivot after a predetermined movement of said arm about its pivot, whereby said arm quickly lifts the valves from the carrier and forcibly throws the valves away therefrom.

5. Rubber valve handling apparatus comprising an intermittently rotatable carrier, a plurality of valve holding means on the carrier and spaced circularly about the axis of rotation thereof, means for periodically indexing the carrier in its intermittent rotation, means for loosening each valve in its holding means in turn and during the movement of the carrier whereby to space the valve bases successively from the carrier, and means movable radially between the carrier and the base of the valve for removing each valve from its holding means in turn and when the carrier is at rest.

6. A valve-treating machine having a carrier with valve supports each including a bore to receive the stem thereof, and a recessed portion aligned with said bore for receiving the base of the valve, and means movable into a position between the carrier and the bases of the valves for ejecting a Valve from the carrier, comprising a rockable arm having projections thereon adapted to engage the base and lift it from its seat, and means for actuating said rockable arm with the carrier at rest to rock the same quickly about its pivot to lift the valves from their positions on said carrier and forcibly throw the same clear of p the carrier.

' '7. Means for ejecting valves from a valve carrier in which the valves are supported in an inverted position by their base portions, comprising a movable arm carrying spaced projections mounted for movement to and from the valve position to bring the projections into position between the carrier and bases of the valves and to thereafter cause the projections to lift the valves from the carrier and remove the same therefrom, said movable arm being mounted on a pivot and carried by movable support in a direction to and from the carrier, means for engaging the arm to move said arm about its pivot as said support is moved, and yielding means for quickly swinging said arm about its pivot after a predeterminedmovement of said arm about its pivot, whereby said arm quickly lifts the valves from the carrier and forcibly throws the valves away therefrom.

EVERETT D. GEORGE HAROLD M. BROWN. 

